How Lena got into organisational change?

Lena originally was working in Learning and Development (L&D) with an in interest in human behaviour, and a background of psychology and anthropology. A role in organisational change came up that played to the strengths of those experience, interest and studies.

How do you define Neuroscience?

The study of human behaviour with scientific slant, bolstered by neuro imaging technology. We can delve into what the brain is thinking, what impact our emotions are making.

How did Lena get into neuroscience and organisational change?

Lena has a learning mindset and was struggling with the paradox of commonly accepted truism that people naturally resist change, yet evidence that clearly people change every day and wanted to reconcile that.

Neuroscience unlocked a lot of that.

How does Lena use the theory of neuroscience in practice?

It boils down to how can you apply in your personal life and how you can apply in professional life.

The SCARF model really simple to use (easy to remember) – thinking about threat responses and reward responses.